Licensed pop-culture apparel and D2C fashion brand for India's youth
The Souled Store is a homegrown Indian fashion and merchandise brand built around licensed IP (Marvel, Disney, DC) and original collections. The tech stack is heavily design-focused (Adobe Creative Suite dominates) with analytics and Python for data work, but notably absent are e-commerce platforms, inventory management, or supply-chain tools — suggesting the brand operates through manual workflows and custom systems. Active hiring is skewed toward design (10 roles) and marketing (7), with heavy intern hiring, indicating a growth phase leaning on creative output and content velocity over operational or technical infrastructure.
Notable leadership hires: Assistant Director
The Souled Store sells licensed pop-culture merchandise and fashion apparel directly to Indian consumers through their D2C channel, with a secondary corporate gifting business. Founded in 2013, the brand positions itself around self-expression and pop-culture fandom, targeting India's youth with both branded collaborations and original menswear collections (smart formals and casual lines). The team is based in Mumbai and operates across design, marketing, and operations; they are currently preparing for DRHP and IPO execution. Primary pain points cluster around cost optimization, supply chain efficiency, and scaling — typical of a profitable mid-sized retailer moving toward public markets.
Design tools dominate: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, and Premiere Pro. Data and analytics work uses Python, Pandas, scikit-learn, MySQL, SQL, and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio). Meta and Google Ads handle paid marketing; AppsFlyer tracks mobile app performance.
Current priorities include new apparel collections (premium menswear), merchandise illustration and packaging design, seasonal trend research, digital marketing assets, and DRHP/IPO preparation and financial closure processes.
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